From 2019 report presented to Parliament.
Quote:
Planning for reasonable worst-case scenarios can present challenges in
communicating risk, as they are not necessarily the most informative
scenarios for businesses and the public. In some cases they have been
counterproductive. For example, during the 2009 pandemic influenza
outbreak, communication of the reasonable worst-case scenario (that
65,000 people in the UK could die) led to inaccurate press coverage.2
In addition, using extreme, but unlikely, scenarios and inadequately
communicating more likely scenarios can be detrimental to trust in the
risk assessment procedure.36 Previous reports have suggested that the
Government should communicate ‘most probable’ scenarios to better inform
the public about the likely risks. However, despite the NRR being intended
for a public audience rather than Category 1 and 2 responders with a
statutory responsibility for emergency planning (Box 2), the risk information
is based directly on the worst-case scenarios in the NRA.2
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this report and the others are just yet another example of the garbage and nonsense from the media. The things reported in there are not that secret and have been mentioned for more than 10 years(ie under Labour).
Report from May 2016
Quote:
The current main stockpile includes some twenty-plus products. It is based primarily on the
assessed risk of an infectious-disease pandemic and of a bioterrorist attack (in the NRA), and
on whether the supplies are generally available in the NHS. Only those which are not usually
available are stockpiled. The total replacement value is over £100 million, so there is quite a
considerable stockpile available for use in the UK.
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